Looks Forward to a Better Blog Search
Google February 18th, 2007 - By Haochi
Kevin Marks, a principal engineer in Technorati, has left the company and joined the Google, as announced on his blog on the 13th this month.
Technorati is one of the leading blog search engine, competes with Google Blog Search.
also read: Google Blog Search Tops Technorati
[Photo by Jonas M Luster, used under a Creative Commons license]
February 18th, 2007 at 11:14 am
I really hope the splog problem in Google Blog Search can be solved in a short time because more useful information hidden in the blogosphere out there is always covered by reckless spammers.
February 18th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
I don’t really see a huge spam problem with Google Blog Search (I don’t do blog search that much), the bigger problem to me is the splogs on Blogger, solving this would some what help solving the rest.
February 19th, 2007 at 10:04 am
The good thing is that Google currently only display random ‘blogs of note’ in the blogger.com homepage compared to before where 2 out of 3 blogs appearing there are splogs. I don’t know if Google’s auto monitoring system in Blogger is effective or not, but I am sure they are aware of the problem (so that’s why, back to your post, they hired Kevin.) ;)
February 19th, 2007 at 10:12 am
No, the Blogs of Note blogs are picked by the Googlers themselves… But I can’t guarantee for the “Explore blogs” and “Random blogs”.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:47 am
Ummm. But it seems that even Explore blogs and Random blogs have less spam in them. Google might have changed the algorithm in which the blogs are picked.